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AU Monitor
2009-06-07, Issue 436
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The African Union suspends Madagascar
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 173, 2009
2009-04-06, Issue 426
The peace and security council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) has proclaimed that the process leading to the assumption of power by opposition leader Andry Rajoelina in Madagascar was unconstitutional and therefore has decided to suspended Madagasca...
Africa: AU suspends Madagascar over coup
2009-03-20, Issue 424
The African Union suspended Madagascar on Friday, the strongest condemnation yet by the international community after opposition leader Andry Rajoelina took power with the support of the army. The AU decision echoed criticism by southern African bloc...
AU condemns assassination of president Vieira
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 170, 2009
2009-03-12, Issue 423
The chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Jean Ping strongly condemned the assassination of the President of Guinea Bissau, João Bernardo Vieira hours after that of his army chief of staff, General Batista Tagme Na Wai and called on polit...
The ICC issues arrest warrant against Bashir
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 171, 2009
2009-03-12, Issue 423
The peace and security council of the African Union (AU) condemned the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and recommended the chairperson of the AU Commission, Jean Ping, send a delegat...
The undecided union government of Africa
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 169, 2009
2009-02-18, Issue 420
The final decisions of the January 2009 African Union (AU) summit, including the assembly decision on the union government, are available to download at www.aumonitor.org The decision on the union government and th...
Ministers for foreign affairs to revise union government plan
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 168, 2009
2009-02-11, Issue 419
The Assembly of heads of state and government of the African Union (AU) ended their 12th ordinary summit on 4 February 2009 with a decision to transform the African Union Commission (AUC) into the African Union Authority (AUA), to be launched in June...
Africa: Gaddafi wants Caribbean in Africa
2009-02-13, Issue 419
Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi has said he would like a United States of Africa to include "Caribbean islands with African populations". Col Gaddafi, speaking in Tripoli as the African Union's (AU) new chairman, said this could include Haiti, Jama...
Africa: African leaders deadlock over Union Government
2009-02-05, Issue 418
Dumping an earlier agreement, African leaders meeting here on Wednesday failed to reach a consensus on the transformation of the African Union Commission (AUC) to the African Union Authority, as a first step towards the establishment of a Union Gover...
Africa: Africa close to Union Government after years of debate
2009-01-30, Issue 417
African leaders are expected to deal conclusively with the discussions regarding the formation of the Union Government during their meeting scheduled for Sunday which could see the birth of a federal government for Africa after more than half-a-centu...
Africa: AU against Bashir indictment
2009-01-30, Issue 417
African governments have rallied behind Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir in rejecting a possible international arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court on charges of orchestrating genocide in Sudan's volatile western region of Darfur....
Kenyan peace summit takes place in February
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 164, 2009
2009-01-15, Issue 415
Former African leaders will attend a peace conference in Nairobi, Kenya under the theme ‘The Kenya we want’ to discuss the political transformation of the country from an ‘ethnic-divisions-ridden state’ into a more tolerant democracy in the region as...
The Zimbabwe crisis deteriorates
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 162, 2008
2008-12-18, Issue 413
The 12th ordinary summit of the African Union (AU) will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia between January 26 and February 3, 2009 under the theme of ‘Infrastructure development in Africa’. According to the Centre for Citizen’s Participation in the AU ...
Summit on Burundi's peace process
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 161, 2008
2008-12-11, Issue 412
The Regional Peace Initiative chaired by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni held a summit on Burundi’s peace process, which has included over twenty summits resulting the surrender of six of the country’s seven former rebel movements. Future meetings ...
Need for a stronger UN mandate in the DR Congo
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 158, 2008
2008-11-13, Issue 406
Heads of State and government of the Great Lakes peace conference met in Nairobi, Kenya in a summit organised by the UN Secretary-General and the African Union (AU) to deal with the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and called for an i...
AU Responds to Financial Crisis
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 157, 2008
2008-11-06, Issue 405
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation, after failing to break the deadlock over the formation of a new Zimbabwean government at a meeting in Swaziland, referred the matter to a full emer...
Africa's largest trading bloc
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 156, 2008
2008-10-29, Issue 404
Member States from the East African Community (EAC), Southern African Development Community (SADC), and Common Markets of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) met in Uganda to discuss the merger of the three economic blocs and the current financial c...
The Logic of Integration
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 155, 2008
2008-10-15, Issue 402
Following a review workshop in Kenya, the East African Community (EAC) deputy secretary general announced that national consultations on the proposed EAC political federation were on course in Rwanda and Burundi. In addition, military commanders from...
Mauritania Deadline Set
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 153, 2008
2008-10-02, Issue 399
A continental workshop on the Economic Partnership Agreements between European and African countries will be held in Addis Ababa to analyse whether inconsistency between regional objectives and initial bilateral trade agreements involving some Africa...
African Development
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 152, 2008
2008-09-24, Issue 398
The under-Secretary-General and UN special adviser on Africa called on world leaders gathered at the United Nations (UN) high-level meeting on African development to ‘streamline actions and upgrade priorities towards the New Partnership for Africa’s ...
Zimbabwe Deal
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 151, 2008
2008-09-17, Issue 396
Zimbabwe’s three main political parties have signed a power-sharing agreement, bringing to an end to nearly 30 years of exclusive rule by Zanu-PF. President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, facilitator of the Zimbabwe talks, told journalists that ‘a unan...
Impact as Effectiveness
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 150, 2008
2008-09-10, Issue 395
The third high level forum (HLF-3) convened in Ghana this week to discuss aid effectiveness. Aid agencies that attended the forum said donors have not made enough progress since the 2005 Paris Declaration in dealing with long-time problems related to...
Aid and Trade in Africa
Weekly Roundup: Issue 149,2008
2008-09-04, Issue 394
The third high level forum (HLF3) on aid effectiveness will be held between the 2nd and 4th of September in Accra to discuss the implementation of the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness since 2005. Prior to the HLF3, civil society representatives...
The Mauritanian Coup: an African Union Response
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 147, 2008
2008-08-14, Issue 393
The African Union (AU) has condemned the military coup in Mauritania and insisted on a return to constitutional government while sending its peace and security commissioner ‘to assess the situation and assist in promoting a peaceful solution to the c...
Africa and HIV/AIDS
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 146, 2008
2008-08-08, Issue 392
The decisions of the executive council and the assembly of heads of state and government from the recently concluded African Union summit in Egypt are now available for download. ...
The case of the severed penis
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi
2008-07-30, Issue 391
I was on a flight from Entebbe to Nairobi on June 30 when I read The New Vision's front page story titled "Mother cuts off defiler's penis."By the time I finished the story, my spirits were up and I have been in a great mood ever since....
AU Summit and G8 Review
Rotimi Sankore
2008-07-30, Issue 391
1. AU MEMBER STATES MUST STRENGTHEN CAPACITY OF THE AU COMMISSION AND ASSEMBLY OF HEADS OF STATES TO COPE SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, AND ‘EMERGENCY’ ISSUES SUCH AS ZIMBABWE:...
G8 Hypocrisy
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 144, 2008
2008-07-17, Issue 390
The leaders of the world’s most industrialised nations declared their intention to impose sanctions on "individuals responsible for violence" in Zimbabwe, adding that they did not recognise the legitimacy of President Mugabe’s government and calling ...
Peace with Justice
AU Monitor Weekly Roundup: Issue 145, 2008
2008-07-23, Issue 390
Following the announcement by International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Ocampo-Moreno of the application to the Court for an arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war cri...
Africa and the G8
Issue 143, 2008 - Weekly Roundup of AU Monitor
2008-07-10, Issue 387
The African Union (AU) chairman, President Jakaya Kikwete led a team of seven African presidents to the G8 summit in Japan that had food and oil crises, climate change and attainment of Millennium Development Goals on the top of their agenda. Kikwete urged the G8, group of eight most industrialised countries, ‘to nurture and fulfil their promises if they were really concerned about Africa’s development’, says AU Monitor in their latest roundup.
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